my latest fave rave = Attack of the Copula Spiders , by Douglas Glover Publication Date: March 27, 2012. Biblioasis Press Paperback Edition ISBN: 978-1-92684-546-3 “Glover is a master of narrative structure.” —Wall Street Journal In the tradition of E.M. Forster, John Gardner, and James Wood, Dougla...
Shift-Command-B is an often-used tool for me. But I sometimes work with unwieldy drafts that go on for pages without a paragraph break. This is when the value of bookmarking, as currently set up, is greatly diminished for me. I've searched these forums, and the Scrivener Manual, but haven't found an...
Since I've converted to Mac Lion, and through its revisions (currently 10.7.3) I've had not-always replicable instances of System Preferences/Language And Text/Symbol And Text Substitution items I've added — and even some of the default sub's that come pre-packaged in the OS, for example ½, ¼, etc —...
Ah, the dysfunctional do-si-do; how I love my sedentary tribe. I want to participate, but only if I do or do not have: characters, settings, conflicts, goals, and only if I can or can not use: verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc. In perpetual irascible admiration I remain, yr hmbl srvnt or master or peer,
Since I wanted global, not merely project-specific, auto-corrections, here’s how I’ve found to do it on my Mac (an added benefit is, since these auto-corrections are at the System level, they work in other text programs as well as Scrivener): I find that it’s most efficient for me to get into a Grow...
I want a two-key macro that will call up the "System Text Preferences" sub-menu of the Auto-Correction subset of Scrivener Preferences. I want to then, immediately, be able to start imputting whatever bastardized shorthand item that occurs to me. In WORD I've long done this whilst (I love ...
started using freeby (Inter)NaNoWriMo. Soon decided to buy as a 20% discount Nano user. Did, and got registered---no problems. Decided to delete Nano version and re-load with latest straight-ahead Scriv 2. Did---no problem till I opened the file I'd been working on, which was over a gig in size; it ...